What did OpenAI’s Habitat team change?
OpenAI describes returning to shared multi-tenant Cosmos DB containers after a period of dedicated containers, then adding hot-key throttling, request priorities, data movement, selective regional replication, caching, and Rust proxy improvements.
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How OpenAI Reworked Shared Storage for Global ReadsHabitat’s storage story is a case study in multi-tenancy, latency, and capacity tradeoffs—not a universal recipe for distributed databases.
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